In Ivanovo, a high-profile criminal case against…

In Ivanovo, a high-profile criminal case was quietly and quietly closed against the ex-general director of Vodokanal JSC Oleg Tikhonov, who was accused of embezzlement of 82 million rubles. FSB officers detained him in February 2019, shortly after the shares of the municipal enterprise were transferred to the balance sheet of the government of the Ivanovo region.

There was a redistribution of property in the housing and communal services sector, and the board of directors of the already state-owned Vodokanal JSC was headed by the plenipotentiary representative of the government of the Ivanovo region in federal government bodies on a voluntary basis and a close friend of the governor Stanislav Voskresensky and the ex-Minister of the Russian Federation for the coordination of the “Open Government” Mikhail, who is sitting in a pre-trial detention center Abyzova Mikhail Kurbatov.

But in the end it was not possible to imprison the ex-head of Vodokanal Tikhonov. He spent six months in a pre-trial detention center, after which the court released him under house arrest. Well, then the FSB first reclassified the case of embezzlement as abuse of power, and then closed it due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Evidence of the theft was never found – or so the defense claims.

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The last thing that was known about Oleg Tikhonov was that in October 2020 he worked in Moscow, one of the Rostec structures. Apparently, while still under investigation.